White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media this morning:

This morning, I stumbled across an amazing poem by a wonderful man named Michael F.

Corporate America is notoriously silent when it comes to speaking out against President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown. But Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen says corporate leaders need to speak out against injustice. “The success of Ben & Jerry's is because we used our power as a corporation to support the people.”

The day Alex Pretti was killed in Minneapolis, Bruce Springsteen penned a song titled “Streets of Minneapolis.” Protest songs are a part of American history, and while they won’t solve our problems on their own, they can empower listeners and turn moments into memory. Then, they turn memory into moral reckoning.

Throughout history, economic boycotts have been a powerful tool for social and political change. Now, it's being employed as Americans seek ways to voice their opposition to the federal government's aggressive immigration crackdown and the corporations that work alongside the Trump administration in enabling it. Martin Luther King spoke of the "power of economic withdrawal," and it's a force with which Americans are using once again.

Greg Ketter, the owner of Dreamhaven Books & Comics in Minneapolis, went viral for putting words to what so many are feeling right now. He is angry. And he knows what book banning & the suppression of dissent means: “the chipping away of our freedom.” #Velshi #VelshiBannedBookClub

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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YouTube video by Senator Andy Kim

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Chaofeng Ge, a 32-year-old Chinese immigrant, died in ICE custody in Pennsylvania on August 5th.

A platform that lets insiders (and legislators) gamble on their own behavior is a threat to democracy.